Just to clarify: do you want to start the process and just let it run without checking if it's alive? Or do you want to spawn a process, monitor it in a background while doing other work?

if youre trying to start a process which is forked off you can use https://github.com/babashka/process/blob/master/API.md#babashka.process/process which returns a running Process object whcih can be interacted with. Also FYI, the & at the end is a bash/shell syntax, OS specific and not related to the Process itself.

@U0JEFEZH6 @U7ERLH6JX I want to spawn the process and let it run. I'm using process but i don't want to block my current session. For now, I'm running my CLI like my-cli sub command &!. But I want to run it as my-cli sub command but the process I spawn with process just die when babashka "quits"

AFAIK process/process doesn’t block and detaches

Just do use shell or sh

Don’t I mean

@U0132G7Q29X this works:

(require '[babashka.process :as p])

;; fork off the ls process here. non blocking
(def ls (p/process "ls" "-alh"))

; ... do other stuff here

you can have some long running process there

I think he wants to keep the process running when bb quits so another examples would be needed to illustrate that

Eg spawn another bb which prints something every second

right

That's it @U04V15CAJ! I'll try to explain my use case: 1- In my project I have some shellscripts that execute a lot of stuff, like download huge files 2- The CLI i've built with babashka prepare a lot of stuff to call this script properly (e.g. envars, config files, validations, etc) 3- Call the shellscript through babashka.process/process I wanted to execute step 3 and keep it running even when bb quits I don't know if this is helpful somehow. Ty for your help

@U0132G7Q29X As you can see in this example, child bb keeps running while the parent bb quits after two seconds.

bb -e '(babashka.process/process {:inherit true} "bb -e \"(while true (Thread/sleep 1000) (prn :hello))\"") (Thread/sleep 2000)'

Ty @U04V15CAJ I'll try it out asap

Sure. https://github.com/borkdude/quickblog is one example of this

Amazing

Several of my personal and project sites use bb too 🙂

the “landing page” for my home server is generated from bb and huff. It lists 15ish categorized links to services I run here at home

Anyone else look at templating languages and marvel at how inelegant they are compared to hiccup-life?

I built my current website using Eleventy about 3-4 months ago. I opened it up to change some to change something a couple of days ago and couldn’t figure it out. 😆

@U02DXJUS5JA There is https://github.com/babashka/cli as a built-in option

clojure.tools.cli is also built-in

there's various other options available via external libs

yeah I am thinking of something else todo progress bars or live reactive updating on atom changes or maybe i imagined it 😛

ah you mean nbb + reagent + ink: https://github.com/babashka/nbb#reagent

Or maybe https://github.com/lispyclouds/bblgum?

ink was the library I was trying to remember but I will look at both options, cheers

@U1QQJJK89

@U0DSU64Q1 I do not have ssh Banner setup on any of my SSH servers. Thus I don't see this. I will try setting up a banner and see if I can replicate, and if so open a ticket.

https://github.com/epiccastle/bbssh/issues/16

@U1QQJJK89 thank you!